Cycle-sledge.



PATENTED OCT. 17, 1905. J. BALDAUF.

CYCLE SLEDGE.

APPLICATION FILED PEB.ZB,1905.

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STATES PitlN CYCLE-SLEDGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1'7, 1905.

Application filed February 28, 1906. Serial No. 247,786.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH BALDAUF, a subject of the German Emperor, and a resident of Oberstaufen, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oycle- Sledges, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a cyclesledge with adjustable connection between the driving-wheel frame and the runner-frame and vertical and horizontal rotary and adjusting device of the runner-frame with regard to the driving-wheel frame, which is within the reach of the hand of the cyclist.

Two embodiments of the present invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side view. Fig. 2 is a front View of a cycle-sledge according to the present invention. Fig. 3 is another embodiment of the invention.

In the first embodiments shown there is only one runner (1.. Above the runner a the support-or bar cof the d riving-wheel frame clasps, by means of a ring (Z, the bar 6, connected with the runner, and connects the drivingwheel frame with the runner-frame. In the upper bar 0 of the driving-wheel frame, which bar a clasps the bar 6 by means of a ring it or a fork, in the case of the particular embodiment shown in the drawings a screW-spindlef, having a right-handed and a left-handed screwthread, is inserted. By means of this screwspindle and the resulting lengthening or shortening of the bar 6 the handle-bar b, which is connected firmly with the runner, is shifted forward or backward. The weightof the cyclist is consequently transferred more to the front or to the back part of the runner, and the load on the wheel is consequently increased or decreased. By means of this regulation of the load on the runner a or on the driving-wheel g a regulation of the pressure of the driving-wheel on the track, according to its condition or inclination, is rendered possible.

In Fig. 3 the lengthening and shortening of the bar 0 is obtained by fork in, with several holes Z, in which pins 21 or the like hold the rod fast. Instead of the spindlef an cecentric or other suitable means may be employed. The vehicle can be used without this adjusting device on a very good track,

and in this case the bar (2 clasps the handlebar I; by means of a ring la.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A cycle-sledge comprising the combination of a driving-wheel, a driving-wheel frame, a runner, a runner-frame, an upper bar connecting the one frame with the other, means for lengthening and shortening the same, and a lower flexible connection between the driving-wheel frame and the runner, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH BALDAUF.

Witnesses:

ULYssns J. BYWATER, MATHILDE K. HELD. 

